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USING YOUR COOKTOP
COOKING AREAS
HINTS
The four surface cooking areas on your
Do not allow plastic objects, aluminum
range are identified by permanent pat-
foil, sugar, or foods with high sugar con-
terns in the cooktop. There are two large
and two small areas. Usethe smaller ar-
th_ heat _
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tent to melt onto the hot cooktop. Melted
eas for small cooking utensils and the
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materials can cause permanent dam-
larger areas for large utensils. This con-
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age to the cooktop.
serves energy.
HOT SURFACE LIGHT
SURFACE CONTROLS
The range isequipped with a HOT SUR-
Your smoothtop is equipped with elec-
FACE light. This red light will turn on to
tronic surface controls that provide 9
indicate that the cooking area is hot and
fixed heat settings,
will remain on until the area has cooled.
When the HOT SURFACE indicator
lightturns off, the top will becool enough
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to touch.
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RETAINED HEAT
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wesuggestthatyoustartw,tha.owe
heat setting then gradually increase the
setting until you find the optimum set-
ting. Boilovers are more likely to occur if
you start out on HIGH then reduce to the
lower setting.
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To protect the top, it is not recom-
If food is cooking too fast or if believers
mendedto use the top as a work surface
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occur, remove lid and reduce to a lower
or as a cutting board or to cook food di-
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setting. Allow enough time for the cook-
rectly on the cooktop without a utensil.
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ing area to adjust to the new setting.
Do not use a trivet or metal stand (such
The smoothtop cooking area retains
as a wok ring) between the utensil and
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heat for a period of time after the ele-
the cooktop. These items can mark or
merit has been turned off. Turn the ele-
etch the surface and affect cooking effi-
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completelyment
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After 30 minutes, the cooktop may be
Thin gauge aluminum cookware, alumi-
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too cool to keep foods warm; however,
nuT foil or foil containers such as pop-
the TOP MAY STILL BE TOO WARM
corn poppers are NOT recommended
TO TOUCH.
for use on the cooktop. They will leave
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metal marks.
Do not slide glass items across the
cooktop. They may scratch or damage
the top.
Do NOT slide aluminum cookware
across the cooktop. This may result in
aluminum marks whichthen must be im-
mediately removed with a recom-
mended cooktop cleaner.
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